1 Samuel 7:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁷ And his return was to Ramah, for there was his house; and there he judged Israel: and he built there an altar unto the LORD.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Then he would return to Ramah, for his home was there; there he judged Israel, and there he built an altar to the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ And his return was to Ramah, for there was his house; and there he judged Israel: and he built there an altar unto Jehovah.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Then he would return to Ramah because that’s where his home was. In Ramah too he served as Israel’s judge, and that is also where he built an altar to the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And he returned to Ramah. For his house was there, and he judged Israel there. And then he built an altar to the Lord there.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And he returned to Ramatha; for there was his house, and there he judged Israel. He built also there an altar to the Lord.

1 Samuel 7:17 Cross References

Genesis 33:20

And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.

Genesis 35:7

And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el: because there God was revealed unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

Isaiah 10:29

they are gone over the pass; they have taken up their lodging at Geba: Ramah trembleth; Gibeah of Saul is fled.

Judges 4:5

And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in the hill country of Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgement.

Judges 6:24

Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovah-shalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

1 Samuel 1:1

Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite:

1 Samuel 1:19

And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.

1 Samuel 11:15

And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.

1 Samuel 14:35

And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same was the first altar that he built unto the LORD.

1 Samuel 15:34

Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

1 Samuel 2:11

And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest.

1 Samuel 28:3

Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.

1 Samuel 8:4

Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah:

1 Samuel 9:12

And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before thee: make haste now, for he is come today into the city; for the people have a sacrifice today in the high place: